If you're looking at using Xe/Xem/Xir or Ey/Em/Eir without having it integrate with the plot/world of the story, you'll likely be alienating the readers anyway.
I understand the argument of using one of the above to promote the idea of gender neutrality, and that's valid... but to the contemporary reader (even in scifi communities), it is alienating and that should be similarly pondered.
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Date: 2010-01-24 05:00 am (UTC)I understand the argument of using one of the above to promote the idea of gender neutrality, and that's valid... but to the contemporary reader (even in scifi communities), it is alienating and that should be similarly pondered.
All in my opinion, of course.